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We’ve killed off half the world’s animals since 1970

by Christopher Ingraham

The new Living Planet Index report from the World Wildlife Fund opens with a jaw-dropping statistic: we’ve killed roughly half of the world’s non-human vertebrate animal population since 1970.

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